CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondiscorddiscord.py
Petee
Petee

Reputation: 1

Why can't my discord.py bot see messages?

I am making a discord.py bot and it does not "see" messages at all, it is supposed to print everything into the terminal and have a prefix, but it doesn't even print any message. code:

import datetime
import os
import discord
from timeit import default_timer as timer
from dotenv import load_dotenv

from discord.ext import commands

load_dotenv()

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.members = True
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

TOKEN = ('boop')


client = discord.Client()


@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')

async def on_message(message):
    print(f'USER - {message.author} texted - {message.content}')



@bot.command()
async def start(ctx):
    await ctx.channel.send("you have started")
    await ctx.guild.create_role(name= {message.author} + "w")



client.run(TOKEN)

(there are extra unused modules I'm planning to use later)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2009

Answers (1)

MrSpaar
MrSpaar

Reputation: 3994

There are a few problems in your code:

  • You should only have one commands.Bot instance, events are not exclusive to discord.Client.
  • For your bot to catch commands, you need bot.process_commands at the end of your on_message event.
  • You were missing @bot.event above on_message.
  • You forgot the fstring in ctx.guild.create_role(...).
import discord
from discord.ext import commands

import os
import datetime
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from timeit import default_timer as timer

load_dotenv()

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.members = True

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')


@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    print(f'USER - {message.author} texted - {message.content}')
    await bot.process_commands(message)


@bot.command()
async def start(ctx):
    await ctx.channel.send("You have started")
    await ctx.guild.create_role(name=f"{message.author}w")


bot.run("TOKEN")

Upvotes: 1

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